Proverbs 20:11
Even a child maketh himself known by his doings, whether his work will be pure, and whether it will be upright.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.
In Context
10Divers weights, and divers measures, are both of them alike an abomination of the Lord.
12The ear that heareth, and the eye that seeth, the Lord hath made both of them alike.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 34:3And in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet a lad, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purify Judah and Jerusalem from the high-places, and the Asherim, and the carved images, and the molten images.
Psalms 58:3(58:4) The wicked are estranged [from goodness] from the womb: those who speak lies go astray from their very birth.
Proverbs 22:15When folly is bound fast to the heart of a lad, the rod of correction must remove it far from him.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 20:11
10 Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the Lord . See here, 1. The various arts of deceiving that men have, all which evils the love of money is the root of. In paying and receiving money, which was then commonly done by the scale, they had divers weights, an under-weight for what they paid and an over-weight for what they received; in delivering out and taking in goods they had divers measures, a scanty measure to sell by and a large measure to buy by. This was done wrong… Read the whole commentary →